Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kyo Wakoku of Nippon Shotou Teikoku is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 13.225 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nagoya. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 89%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, Nippon Shotou Teikoku successfully hosted the Lazarus Olympics, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and the nation has an international reputation for compassion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nippon Shotou Teikoku's national animal is the ryu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the yen.

Nippon Shotou Teikoku is ranked 3,461st in Lazarus and 99,519th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -37 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and